Would you pay £10pm for another 10 meg?

Phemo said:
I know it wasn't directed at me, but I'm also on Infinity:

Code: 
C:\>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.69] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.69:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 10ms
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Your ping is lower to bbc.co.uk as you live much closer to their servers in London.
 
@OP.

Nope. I'm getting over 20Mb from Sky over ADSL. Only found myself wishing it was a tad quicker a couple of times in five years and that was for big uploads. No caps, no traffic shaping (unlike Virgin cable) and it's good value.
 
Those living close to the exchange often can't get FTTC as they are directly connected to it and have no cabinet for the 'C' part of the name. If you have 20 Mbit you must be quite close to the exchange and you could very well be directly connected to it.

I didn't know about this either when I looked at Infinity (just out of curiosity really) when they were laying the fibre in the street next to us. I looked for a cabinet but couldn't find it, but they have cabinets in the same street but a lot further up (500M at least) have the BT Infinity stickers on them, and other ones up to a Km away have the cabinets too, just small road side ones but the huge sticker lets you know what they are for.

No fibre until FTTP for us guys and then maybe not even then.
 
It is 40/10 but I guess the OP's house is a little distance from the cab so Sky have given an estimate of 30Mbit.


moogle said:
Guess you had a bad Be* line or something, Phemo's pings to www.bbc.co.uk aren't as low as can be had on Be*

Granted it's a really small test and not conclusive but still...
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True, but although I'm close to London, I imagine people in London would see lower. I had Be in the same house so from this location it was slightly better. Still, ping isn't really an indicative performance test anyway :)
 
Tealc said:
Those living close to the exchange often can't get FTTC as they are directly connected to it and have no cabinet for the 'C' part of the name. If you have 20 Mbit you must be quite close to the exchange and you could very well be directly connected to it.

I didn't know about this either when I looked at Infinity (just out of curiosity really) when they were laying the fibre in the street next to us. I looked for a cabinet but couldn't find it, but they have cabinets in the same street but a lot further up (500M at least) have the BT Infinity stickers on them, and other ones up to a Km away have the cabinets too, just small road side ones but the huge sticker lets you know what they are for.

No fibre until FTTP for us guys and then maybe not even then.
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Cheers, I wasn't aware of that. Would explain why my mate a mile down the road can get Infinity and I can't...
 
Spenty said:
My ping dropped significantly when I came from BE* to Infinity. Both fastpath.
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Well, in this case you changed providers. Changing providers might lower latency.

I went from Zen ADSL2+ to Zen VDSL2. 8ms to BBC.co.uk, before and after.
 
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